So some of you here might have heard of Minovsky physics before. No, not Minkowski space. Minovsky physics. This was created in the Mobile Suit Gundam series, and I have an idea of how to incorporate it into an SCP.

I made a brainstorming thread and a draft page on google docs (comments turned on) to help build up a base for this concept. For those of you who don't want to click the link, the basic idea is fully animate Gunpla who possess functioning weapons that utilize Minovsky particles. I have some ideas on how to put it into action…

The only problem is that I have little to no knowledge on molecular and nuclear physics.

So here's where I ask for some help. If someone is willing to help me co-author or assist me in writing this file, I would greatly appreciate it.

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I know zero or less than zero things about Gunpla, and have only studied physics because it's shiny and makes poetries in my brain. However, if you want to write something that talks about particles, solar fusion is a great place to start.

Also, among my favorite books on subatomic physics was "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zukav. It's a good overview of quantums, quarks and string theory, written for the layperson in a narrative style. If you want to underpin a sweet scifi idea with arcane science-sounding talk, that's not a bad place to learn some.

Minovsky Particles, and their equivalents in other Gundam Series are basically magic. Basically Minovsky tech is multiple fictional steps beyond our current understanding of physics. Yes, they borrow language and concepts from actual physics and go through something of a "what-if" with existing physics, but it's still just an exercise in making up your own rules and then finding language to cover them up.

For a closer example, the multiple Gundam Build Fighters anime/manga/novels have Plavsky particles, which interact with the plastic in Gunpla models to make them behave like real Gundams, so that children can make them fight in tournaments. They are so bullshitted that they literally come from a giant magic scientific crystal.

I feel like the two lessons from that are 1) if you want an SCP with "realistic" physics but does something impossible, you set the fake rules first and then work backwards, and 2) if your story is about magic fighting toy robots, deep physics speculation (a la SCP-2871) probably isn't what's going to make people care about it. SCPs are by definition anomalies, so going into interesting/realistic/detailed physics is an optional story thread, not a requirement.